InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ This Wasn't In The Job Description ❯ More Clues ( Chapter 48 )

Chapter 48

 

More Clues

 

On the back of InuYasha's motorcycle, as they sped on their way to Tsukishima in Tokyo to look for more clues, Kagome thought about what they needed to do that day. She adjusted herself against InuYasha's back, and rested her chin on him, heaving a sigh and pressing her breasts tightly against him a moment. If things went smoothly, which she highly doubted, all things considered, she had to call her mother and then pack before leaving for the Onsen in Odaiba.

 

Poor Kaede, left behind to deal with the mess - she would not be coming with them. Kagome guessed she would just take over the household chores when they got to Kamakura. It was no problem - she rather looked forward to taking care of InuYasha. Smiling to herself, Kagome gripped InuYasha tighter a moment, and felt him chuckle.

 

Behind them Miroku, Sango and Kirara followed in Miroku's car. Sango had insisted they take it instead of the motorcycle because she had Kirara with her. Secretly, Kagome wondered if Sango had got annoyed with always having to hold on to Miroku on his motorcycle. The agent just couldn't win with her, it seemed.

 

Tsukishima was a man-made island in Tokyo bay built back in the Edo period. It had older sections, with small houses and shops, and areas that had been cleared and new high rises built. They were headed for an area of older buildings that were recently marked for demolition. As they entered Monja Street, their noses were assaulted by the smell of the monja-yaki sitting in bins in front of the shops. This specialty was not something InuYasha was very fond of, and he wrinkled his nose and gunned his engine, causing Miroku to have to speed up quickly or lose him.

 

Poking InuYasha in the shoulder, Kagome motioned that they had come to the area Itaro had mentioned to her. He pulled the bike over, and waited for Miroku to pull up behind him. Then they went to see what they could find.

 

“Where did he say it was?” said InuYasha, surveying the rubble that lay before them.

 

Coming up beside him, Kagome bit her lip. There was very little left to be able to tell which building it had been. Large piles of demolished concrete and debris from smaller houses lay in heaps on either side of the street straight out to the water's edge. But walking slowly towards them, Kagome looked at her directions again.

 

“I think that is the most likely place to start,” said Kagome, pointing.

 

“Well then, shall we be off looking?” said Miroku.

 

Kirara chirped in Sango's arms and jumped down, prancing over to the demolition site.

 

“Does she know what we are looking for?” asked Kagome wonderingly.

 

“I told her on the way over here,” said Sango with a smile.

 

The neko pranced up to a pile and daintily took a sniff. Soon the others joined her, and they carefully began to sift through debris. A few times InuYasha got impatient and started flinging stuff around, and Kagome had to remind him that not only could he potentially hit her and his friends, but he could also miss or damage any clues. The hanyou would subside with a grumbled apology, and then continue in a more subdued manner.

 

“Ah, I think I found something,” said Sango, after they had been digging around for over an hour.

 

Carefully, Sango lifted out some grimy looking, torn pieces of yellow paper. But they were very tattered. When Kirara saw what she was doing, she pawed more at the spot the papers had been found. Sneezing a bit a first, the neko pulled out more of the same pages. Everyone gathered around to look at what they found.

 

“Well, these do look like more pages of Midoriko's journal,” said Miroku, looking over Sango's shoulder. “But they will need some careful restoration if we are to read them clearly.”

 

While gazing at the journal pages in Sango's hands, trying to see if she could make out any words there, Kagome got a funny yet familiar feeling. It traveled up her spine, and drew her attention away from the others. With mounting trepidation, Kagome looked at a spot almost directly above them.

 

“Um, InuYasha,” said Kagome her voice low and wary.

 

“Yeah, what?” InuYasha replied, not really paying attention as he dug around a little more.

 

“Watch out!”

 

Startled by the sudden urgency in her voice, InuYasha looked up. So did Miroku and Sango- and they almost missed it. A portal opened up above them, blinking furiously before spitting something out.

 

There was no time for InuYasha to draw Tessaiga, as a horde of serpent youkai fell slavering upon him. He growled and raised his arms, claws at the ready. Next to Sango, Kirara transformed into her larger youkai form. Miroku and Sango brandished their weapons as InuYasha was buried in a sea of serpents. Kagome stepped back, watching as the three of them battled the serpents from the outside while pieces of the serpents came flying out at them as InuYasha worked to free himself.

 

Something made Kagome look up again. The portal had not closed yet. And something else was coming through…

 

“Kagome, stay back, I'll handle this!” Kouga said as he fell…right on top of the serpents and InuYasha.

 

“Get the fuck off my back, you shit-eating wolf!” InuYasha roared and came up and out of the pile of serpents which had finally fallen to pieces around him.

 

But Kouga's momentum brought him down hard on top of InuYasha, and they both hit the rubble, sending it flying with dust billowing out. Miroku, Sango, Kirara and Kagome were forced back, coughing.

 

Rebounding quickly, InuYasha threw Kouga off - but the wolf flipped over and landed on his feet.

 

“You putting my Kagome in danger again, mutt face?” Kouga said angrily, and launched a flying kick at the hanyou.

 

“She's not your Kagome, she's mine!” growled InuYasha, and caught Kouga's foot, dragging him forward to punch him in the face.

 

“You're just saying that!” Kouga retorted, just dodging the blow, and freed his foot from InuYasha's grasp.

 

“No, it's true!” Kagome called out, and Kouga took his attention away from InuYasha, startled.

 

“What?” Kouga managed to say before InuYasha landed a blow to his chin, sending him flying in the air.

 

“She said it is true - Kagome is mine!” InuYasha called out defiantly and went after Kouga again.

 

“Please, stop!” Kagome said urgently. “Whatever your reasons for being here, they can't be because of me - so stop fighting!”

 

“I was trying to track down Naraku when I followed these serpent youkai and fell through the portal!” Kouga managed to say before InuYasha caught up to him and he had to bound away from the enraged hanyou.

 

“Stop running away!” InuYasha said angrily. “Get back here and fight, you wimpy piece of wolf shit!”

 

“Kagome, I will stop fighting if you tell me one thing,” said Kouga, crouching low and trying to take out InuYasha with a kick to the ankles. “Do you love this hanyou?”

 

“Yes, I love InuYasha very much,” replied Kagome earnestly, her hands clutched tightly together in front of her chest.

 

“Very well then,” said Kouga sadly, rolling to just miss being punched by InuYasha. “Just tell me where the portal is, and I will leave.”

 

Frantically, Kagome looked up in the air to see if the portal was still there. It was, but she could tell it would be gone very soon.

 

“Quickly, up there!” Kagome said, pointing.

 

“I wasn't fucking finished with you yet, coward!” yelled InuYasha, but Kouga had leapt up and away, into the air.

 

“You better treat her well, mutt face, or I'll be back,” said Kouga, and looked at Kagome a moment with regret before disappearing through the portal.

 

“One of these days I swear I am going to…” said InuYasha, balling up his fist and snarling angrily at the spot where Kouga and the portal last were.

 

“Please, InuYasha,” said Kagome softly, coming up and gently taking his fist in her hands. “There will be no more need to fight Kouga, I'm sure.”

 

The urge to fight suddenly left InuYasha as he looked into her serious and pleading face. She stood there gazing up at him, until InuYasha relaxed, heaving a heavy sigh. Then he closed his eyes a moment, and when he opened them he smirked at her which made her smile back at him, relieved.

 

“Come on, InuYasha,” said Miroku. “Let's take what we have found back to your house.”

 

With a nod, InuYasha took Kagome's hand and they all walked back to their vehicles.